Jeannette Rankin Quotes

How can people in other countries who are trying to grasp our plan of democracy avoid stumbling over our logic when we deny the first steps in democracy to our women?

Jeannette Rankin

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WomenPeopleDemocracyLogicPlan

You've got to have an ego as big as Mars to want to think that you, of all people, are better than anyone else to be president of the United States. People that vain, they want their place in history, and they want to be able to control how much they'll be worshipped by future generations.

Jello Biafra

FutureHistoryPeopleControlEgo

The idealists dream and the dream is told, and the practical men listen and ponder and bring back the truth and apply it to human life, and progress and growth and higher human ideals come into being and so the world moves ever on.

Anna Howard Shaw

LifeGrowthTruthMenProgressBack

I have a very good sense of my body and where it's at. Although I don't feel the ground in the same way that somebody else would, I'm very aware... I can feel pressure, and I know exactly where my toes are and exactly where my heel is.

Amy Purdy

GoodPressureFeelBodyI CanKnow

My main form of transportation at that time was a bicycle, because bicycles could move though the crowd.

John Pomfret

TimeBicycleTransportationMove

Every time I go to a new place, more likely than not, I end up seeing an opera there. It's ended up being a part of travel.

Stana Katic

TimeTravelEndSeeingPlaceNew

I didn't wish those tragedies upon the people who played them out. It was certainly tragic for them, but not for me. All of those things brought me to where I am. Without those things, I couldn't be who I am, I wouldn't be here.

Story Musgrave

I AmPeopleMeWishWithoutOut

Horror does better when it's bubbling under. It's a niche. It doesn't like the limelight.

Robert Englund

BetterHorrorNicheLikeLimelight

I was 11 when I was molested. It was like a nuclear explosion going off in my life, destroying everything.

Robin Quivers

LifeMy LifeEverythingGoingOff

I believe that the American administration of Iraq has been arrogant, has pursued policies that are illegal in international law and has been ignorant and incompetent. I said this very forthrightly to the senators.

Juan Cole

LawBelieveAmericanSaidI Believe

When we were kids, we would just go walking: just walk in a direction and hope that you were gonna find a crashed alien spaceship or buried pirate's treasure or something like that. You never did. You'd find, like, a coyote skeleton, something like that. That was the most exciting thing you'd ever find.

Jon Watts

HopeWalkDirectionWalkingYouGo

I look like a woman, but I think like a man.

Dolly Parton

WomanManThinkLookLikeI Think

I just want women to feel beautiful.

Christian Cota

WomenBeautifulFeelWantJust

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